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Iowa early News Headlines: Monday, Dec. 7 2020

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December 7th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:45 a.m. CST

INDIANOLA, Iowa — One person is dead and four others were injured during a collision in Warren County, Sunday afternoon. The Iowa State Patrol reports a passenger in an SUV, 41-year-old Amanda Kay Core, of Newton, died at the scene at the crash at 180th Avenue and Fulton Street, northeast of Indianola. The accident happened when a pickup driven by a 17-year-old, failed to stop at the intersection and struck the passenger side of an SUV. The injured included the driver of the SUV, 41-year old Aaron Christopher Core, of Indianola, a 5-year old, one 15-year old and the driver of the pickup, all of whom are from Indianola. The names of the juveniles were not immediately released. The accident occurred at around 3:40-p.m.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A woman was shot on state property near the Iowa State Capitol. Officials say the injured person was taken to a hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening injury. The injured person was a woman, who was shot in the leg after a traffic incident. Officials didn’t identify the woman. The Iowa State Patrol and Division of Criminal investigation were investigating the shooting.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa reported nearly 2,000 more virus cases and 17 new deaths linked to the coronavirus on Sunday. The state reported 1,869 new COVID-19 cases Sunday to give the state 243,931 cases and 2,682 deaths since the pandemic began. Iowa officials said the number of people hospitalized with the virus declined to 918 on Saturday from the previous day’s 960. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Iowa decreased over the past two weeks, going from 3,034.29 new cases per day on Nov. 21 to 1,744 new cases per day on Saturday.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa prison inmate with COVID-19 and other medical conditions has died at a hospital. The Iowa Department of Corrections said Sunday that Larry Whaley died Saturday morning at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. Whaley had been serving a 50-year sentence for second-degree murder at Anamosa State Penitentiary, which has had a significant coronavirus outbreak this fall. The 64-year-old Whaley had been hospitalized for several days before his death.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Three people, including a 1-year-old, died after their car collided with a semi truck on Interstate 80 early Saturday. The Iowa State Patrol said 28-year-old Gustabo Salcedo entered I-80 going westbound in the eastbound lanes in Polk County. A semitrailer truck collided head-on with Salcedo’s 2002 Volkswagen Golf and all three people inside the car died. The State Patrol said Salcedo, 24-year-old passenger Diana Sanchez-Tello and a 1-year-old whose name was withheld died in the crash. Both Salcedo and Sanchez-Tello were from Des Moines. The crash report did not indicate whether the 59-year-old driver of the truck was injured in the crash.